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ALL PARLIAMENT NOW

Break U.S. grip on Canada
Adopt full employment policy

By MAURICE RUSH
Parliament must be immediately called into session
to adopt new policies to protect Canada’s national
interests against the U.S. economic offensive, and to
take immediate steps to assure full employment and an
adequate income for all Canadians.

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deny labor and other sections of
the city representation on Civic

bodies.

The NPA now see this
monopoly challenged by the
strong public demand for
reorganizing Civic government
on the basis of a represenative
ward system, which all major
Canadian cities now have.

(See Alderman Rankin’s
column on page 2.)

This was the main gist of a
wire sent to the Prime Minister
by the Communist Party of
Canada. The Communist Party
stand was taken directly to the
steps of Parliament Monday
when a delegation headed by
national leader William
Kashtan, lobbied Members of
Parliament urging action.

The wire to the Prime Min-
ister said: ‘‘We urge your
Government to stand firm
against any effort by the Nixon
Administration to force through
a continental energy policy, the
elimination of safeguards in the
U.S.-Canada Auto Pact, and
deepen Canada’s involvement in
NATO and NORAD in return for
modification of the 10 percent
surcharge.

“The Canadian government
should make it unalterably clear
that Canadian independence and
sovereignty are not for sale.”

The wire, signed by Kashtan,
said the present crisis “‘requires
an emergency session of Parlia-
ment so that effective measures
can be taken to protect the
genuine national interests of our
country. In the short term it
requires action to protect the
jobs of all those who may be ad-
versely affected by Nixon's
economic aggression.”

“In the long term,’ said
Kashtan, “‘‘it requires measures
of balanced all-Canadian
industrialization as well as new
trade policies which can begin to
extricate Canada from the
embrace of U.S. imperialism
? Parliament should be
called into session immediately
to formulate ‘such new national
policies which can strengthen
Canadian independence and
assure work or adequate

incomes for all Canadians as a
right.”

(See full Communist Party
statement inside. Also, report of
the Communist Party lobby in
Ottawa on Monday.)

The Communist Party of
Canada has taken the stand that
Canada must refuse to shoulder
the cost of U.S. imperialist
economic domination and mili-
tary aggression. It points out
that because of continentalist
policies followed by Canadian
governments since World War 2
Canada is in a most precarious
economic and trading position as
a result of President Nixon's
declaration of economic. war at
home and abroad.

For years Canadian Com-
munists warned that Canada’s
total dependence. and domina-
tion by the U.S. would endanger
our national survival and drag
us into a severe crisis. These
warnings have now proven
correct. The attempts by the
U.S. to dominate world trade
and economic affairs, and its
reckless military policy,
especially in Southeast Asia.
which has cost the U.S. $30
billion a year, now threatens
Canada.

The new crisis forced on
Canada with its prospect of
further mass unemployment as
a result of the 10 percent
surcharge comes on top of
serious economic difficulties
Canada was already having.
Price increases in Canada in the
month before Nixon's announce-
ment had already reached the
highest point in a decade.

’ Unemployment according to

See PARLIAMENT, pg. 8

W.A.C. Bennett.

repercussions here.

‘LEGISLATURE MUST MEET'

The B.C. Legislature should be convened at once to take
action to develop B.C. manufacturing and expand-markets with
socialist countries unaffected by the capitalist monetary crisis.

This was the demand voiced Wednesday by Nigel Morgan,
B.C. leader of the Communist Party in a telegram to Premier

The wire says that because of B.C.’s heavy dependence on
U.S. and Japanese markets the U.S. surtax will have disastrous